Baked Beans or Home Fries
 

I just got done reading through the Dogs or Brats thread- Johnsonville brats are once again on my grocery list.
So my next thought is, what do I fix with them, a skillet of home fries or a dish of my finely tweaked, (oh so good) baked beans?
I love to chow down on either.

Your choice would be?

well beans ARE good for yer Heart !!

With brats, it's got to be beans. Home fries go with other stuff.

why choose?

North of the Mason Dixon line homefries are a breakfast thing. (that's thang to you) and it doesn't really matter since everyone fucks them up royally. (don't even get me started) But with the grill it could be anything as a side. Tonight we grilled some vegan pork steaks (Pork! the other vegetable.) and we had grilled corn on the cob. Sometimes we do roasted potatoes or roasted beets. sometimes we'll throw a vegetarian on the grill, you know, just for grins, it's all good.

The inch has been badgering me about when we are going to do grilled pizza. I am working on it and I will video tape it when it goes down and you'll see it. I am not talking some pansy assed shit with a pan or pizza stone or pre baked crust. God would know you were trying to fool him and he would smite you verily. No this would be dough right on the grill BAM! (as they say) stay tuned.

I haz a sand blaster yew can Borrow there Foots

lemme rob a bank (gas $) and hop in the truck. I could use a road trip!

a better answer would be . . . both!

hmm

I have an original idea--prepare both food items!

...and then decide before consumption?

what, I can't agree? just responding to the poll

anyway, "both" is clearly the right answer

course you can. but you'll get ribbed for it. It is teh Cellar....

I agree, it's "both."

Pressed to choose one, I'd say...um, it depends. Depends on who's eating it and if they're going to be spending the rest of the evening in close proximity to me. :)

I prefer the beans, though, unless you're talking potatoes with all the goodies like peppers, onions, and cheese! Yum!

Love those J'ville brats. My favorite is Honey Barbecue.

Baked beans for something off the grill, it's a natural.

Home fries are a breakfast item. Needs an omelet or a couple once overs and a mess o' bacon and/or sausage.

One or the other, it's beans. But if both are offered, I take both.

I didn't know what Home Fries were.
I found these step by step recipes (for cooked and uncooked)

Seems pretty comprehensive
If that's what you mean I'd definitely have them.. AND beans!
BTW - I'm one of the few people who bake their own beans in this country. Mostly we mean Heinz when we say Baked Beans.

If i can't have the home fries, I want potato chips with my baked beans. I scoop up the beans with the chip----is very yummy.

:notworthy:

Mikesells potato chips are a must with baked beans!

It depends, if the beans are too sweet, then its the home fries.

I absolutely love filling up on either, or both.
I never realized that in some parts homefries are a breakfast only thing, not that I don't love them with some eggs, sausage, pancakes, etc.

Another one of my other favorite foods to include homefries with is when I am panfrying up a batch of fresh caught fish.

SG, just like in your link.

Pico, I made the poll to be your favorite type, sweet or otherwise. My own developed recipe leans toward the sweeter flavor, but I want to be able to taste four things with a bite of my beans.
In no particular order they are:
- a sweet aspect from the full bodied mollasses and dark brown sugar
- the pungence from the apple cider vinegar
- the bacon that covers the baking dish
- the smoke from the Liquid Smoke
This combination of flavors creates a fantastic mouthful of rich tastes, all of which are discernable one after the other.
I don't add any other tastes like onions because I start to get competing flavors after four of them.
Maybe we should post our favorite baked beans recipe in a separate thread.

Oh yea, I've found that the rich, full flavor of a Sam Adams Cream Stout complements the beans flavors nicely for me.

I was going to respond beginning with "Up here, we..."
for some reason, I feel as if I should begin every entry on this sort of thing like everybody here is south of me. I don't know why, but along with that, it reminds me of a joke around this area.....*clears throat*...Okay.....

What do Erie folk call people from Pittsburgh?
"Up ears". Why? Well, they can tell when somebody is from Pittsburgh. They say, "Oh yeah, I'm up ear from d'burgh just vizitin."

It's a plague of vocabulary.

Anyways, "Home Fries" to me is my mom slicing potatos about 1/2" thick, frying them in an iron skillet with a bit of oil, top it off with cracked black pepper and a lager. And we typically never eat baked beans around here unless it's summertime and we're in somebody's backyard eating hot dogs...lol

Oopsie.

I used to love baked beans or pork-n-beans...whatever, but not so much anymore because they usually are on the sweet side. Im not into foods being sweet unless they are for dessert.